The Crisis for Liberalism...Ross Douthat

[mystery-ak]

The Crisis for Liberalism


Ross Douthat NOV. 19, 2016

THE 2016 campaign was a crisis for conservatism; its aftermath is a crisis for liberalism. The right, delivered unexpectedly to power, is taking a breather from introspection as it waits to see what Trumpism means in practice. The left, delivered unexpectedly to impotence, has no choice but to start arguing about how it lost its way.

A lot of that argument already revolves around the concept of “identity politics,” used as shorthand for a vision of political liberalism as a coalition of diverse groups — gay and black and Asian and Hispanic and female and Jewish and Muslim and so on — bound together by a common struggle against the creaking hegemony of white Christian America.

This vision had an intuitive appeal in the Obama era, when it won the White House twice and seemed to promise permanent political majorities in the future. And the 2016 campaign was supposed to cement that promise, since it pitted liberalism’s coalition of the diverse against Donald Trump’s explicitly reactive vision.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-crisis-for-liberalism.html?ref=opinion

[skeeter]

The Crisis for Liberalism


Ross Douthat NOV. 19, 2016

THE 2016 campaign was a crisis for conservatism; its aftermath is a crisis for liberalism. The right, delivered unexpectedly to power, is taking a breather from introspection as it waits to see what Trumpism means in practice. The left, delivered unexpectedly to impotence, has no choice but to start arguing about how it lost its way.

A lot of that argument already revolves around the concept of “identity politics,” used as shorthand for a vision of political liberalism as a coalition of diverse groups — gay and black and Asian and Hispanic and female and Jewish and Muslim and so on — bound together by a common struggle against the creaking hegemony of white Christian America.

This vision had an intuitive appeal in the Obama era, when it won the White House twice and seemed to promise permanent political majorities in the future. And the 2016 campaign was supposed to cement that promise, since it pitted liberalism’s coalition of the diverse against Donald Trump’s explicitly reactive vision.

more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/opinion/sunday/the-crisis-for-liberalism.html?ref=opinion

And the left will learn nothing, because they have and will continue to fall victim to their own media propaganda.

[Frank Cannon]

Did anyone tell this idiot that other than Zero getting reelected, the Rat's have been destroyed in elections. Identity politics has always been a loser.